TOP 10 Places In Washington To Never Miss

The capital of the USA, Washington D.C., is full of monumental city sights. So, be ready to go here and there to see everything around. You need at least a week to learn all interesting places. If it is your first visit to Washington, here is the list of TOP places.

Washington Interesting Places

Botanic Garden

Washington Botanic Garden is one of the biggest in the North America. It counts more than 60 thousands sorts of plants. Some of them are hundreds of years old. Just imagine: there are many halls, devoted to different climate areas of our planet. The Dessert is full of cactuses and other thorny plants. TheOrchids hall is full of flowers of different colors. The Jungles boasts with green trees of dozens of meters high. The entrance and photography is free. The exhibition halls are full of cozy arcs and benches, waterfalls and green lawns.

National Gallery of Arts

Washington Gallery is one of the biggest and precious art places in the world. The building was constructed in 1941. It was named the West Gallery. It contains the sculpture and art works of European masters. You can see the masterpieces of Leonardo da Vinci, Van Gogh and others. The next, East Gallery was built in 70th. This is the place of modern art.

Mount Vernon

If you want to find the best place for weekend, Mount Vernon is the best variant. The president of the USA George Washington lived and worked here. The villa looks like a big farm. There are many horse stables, kitchens, mills, and wide open spaces. The house is worth saying as much as it is worth visiting. This is elite two-stored building with mass of rooms: fire places, working zones, dining table. You can spend the whole day walking through the villa’s territory. If you want to have picnic, you should take some food with you.

Washington Active Leisure

Rock Creek Park

The Rock Creek Park is proud of not only its big size (it is twice bigger than New York Central Park), but historically important: Native Americans, emigrates, the dozens of military forts. Rock Park is the best resting place for locals. They like walking there, ride the horse, play American football, and go cycling, canoe and kayaks. There is a Planetarium and Natural Center in the park. You can learn animals there. Welcome to the riding academy! Riding a horse, you can pass by different beautiful landscapes. The dozens of famous designers have been working there at that time.

Great Waterfalls of Potomac River

This is an interesting natural attraction, where you can spend the whole day: the chain of waterfalls and rivers. It is really noisy here! The waterfalls are not big, but numerous. There is a special observing platform to watch nature. You can also see big turtles, resting in the sun on stony surfaces around the river. Definitely, it is hard to find the best place for picnic. You can rent bicycle or kayaks to try yourself in kayaking.

Washington Entertainments

National Washington Zoo

Smithsonian National Zoological Park is absolutely free. This is the home of 2 thousands of animals. The park territory is as big as you can imagine. You should buy a map of the Zoo before start learning animals. This is your chance to plan your trip in the best way.

The most popular animals that you can see are pandas. They peacefully live and make their families. You can see funny gorillas, throwing fruits to each other. Nevertheless, the territory of gnawing animals is also interesting. Look! There is a big swimming-pool with sea cows and pavilion, where reptiles live. The top of the cake is huge alligator snapping turtle in the center of aquarium. Come and see!

Ford’s Theatre

Everyone remember a big tragedy that was happened in this theatre many years ago. The president of America, Abraham Lincoln was shot. That was a shock for the country. The president died in the house just opposite the theatre. What a legendary building! The theater is a museum now. It was renewed and restored to welcome visitors. This is your chance to see the president’s loge, seat and learn the president’s biography.

Black Cat Club

This is the cult place in Washington. It is considered to be the best place for young musicians. The world-popular Californians from Rancid and English group Stereolab started from here. New and new musicians play their interesting original music in this club, entertaining visitors. The music genres are different: rock, heavy-metal, funk, soul. This is a usual situation too meet the world-famous stars here, like The Killers, Garbage, Kings of Leon and Moby.

Verizon Center

This is the huge arena – the home platform of Washington Capitals. Do you like hockey? The hockey season usually starts in October. It is better to book tickets beforehand. Anyway, you should go to the website to get more detailed information.

Chop’t Creative Salad Co

It is really difficult to walk down the city places on an empty stomach. You will be surprised, but the last place you should visit in Washington is restaurant in the very city center, several districts far from the White House. This is the nice and healthy alternative to the traditional fast-food restaurants. As you can see, the restaurant is specialized in spicy and tasty salads. They are various, made of various fruits and vegetables, hot and cold, traditional and exotic. The restaurant proud is ecological clean dishware: plastic spoons, forks and special salad bowls.

Making salads is special creative procedure. You can make order and watch cooking. The ingredients that you chose are mixed and knifed in front of everybody according to your preferences. It looks like a salad fairy! All you need is choosing salad wrapping. It can be bread, scone, biscuit or something else. The portions are huge. The standard portion can feed two persons.

Try to find all these places during your next visit. It is not a problem. All of them are public, famous and easy to find. Rental car services in Washington can help you to visit all city sights for minimal period, spending much time for watching interests than learning map.